February 2008
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February 2008 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter
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Quotes of the Month
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News
- BeleniX was recognized recently with the FOSS India 2008 Award at Open Source India Week:
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User Group Meetings
- The ATL-OSUG (Atlanta OpenSoalris User Group) met on February 12th, Peter Arremann presented Logical Domains & OpenSolaris.
- The ALAMO-SUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) met on February 13th. Pat Lewallen presented Blackbox Tour and DTrace.
- The BOSUG (Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group) met on February 16th. Sanjeev presented QT + DTrace (SDT Probes), Manish presented a KDE overview, and Anil presented a SUN Post based robot demo.
- The LOSUG (London OpenSolarus User Group) held a meeting on Feb. 20th. Jim Hughes presented Project Indiana Developer Preview 2 at this months meeting, including a demonstration of the technology and group discussion.
- The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on Feb. 20th. Topics of discussion included: Performance observation on SPARC systems, Jumpstart Troubleshooting, Advanced JET and Automated Application Provisioning using N1SPS, and Extended Attributes.
- The NYOSUG (New York OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on Wednesday, Feb. 20th. The featured topic was Dtrace and its applicability to solving interesting and challenging problems.
- The BROSUG (Berlin OpenSolaris User Group) met on Feb 27th. Peter Tuschy vom Strato AG talks about advantages (and disadvantages) of Solaris in big data processing centers.
- The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday Feb. 28th. Clay Baenziger presented LZMA, Diane Plampin presented Documentation, and Ginnie Wray presented Slim Install.
- The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on Feb. 28th. Tim Marsland and Todd Clayton gave an update on Virtualization.
- The HOSUG (Hyderabad OpenSolaris User Group) met on Feb 29th while Sun Tech Days going on.
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Conferences
- OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Hyderabad took place on Feb. 29th. You can download presentations here.
- OpenSolaris Technical days in Granada and Madrid (Spain). The OpenSolaris Hispano Community has organized The Technical Days with the help of:
- Foundation for the research and development of OpenSource
- University of Granada
- Training Centres (FOC and Escuela de Arte)
- Accenture
- Sun Microsystems
- More info in spanish in the URL: http://es.opensolaris.org/RegistroVT/
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Project Updates
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10 New Projects Opened in February
- ARC Process Definition http://opensolaris.org/os/project/arc-process/
- DTrace Guide http://opensolaris.org/os/project/dtrace-doc/
- Evaluate Conary http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/conary-eval/
- Ext3 file system support http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ext3/
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fcoe/
- Flexible Mandatory Access Control http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fmac/
- Journaled File System (JFS) http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jfs/
- Labeled IPsec http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/txipsec/
- Test Development http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/
- Validated Execution Project http://opensolaris.org/os/project/valex/
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Technical Status
Contributions to Consolidation code
- There was 9 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in February, bringing the total to 223. Thanks to Avinash Joshi, Juergen Keil, Vidya Lakshmi, Mark Martin, Chad Mynhier, Rishi Nair, for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Seth Goldberg, Jon Haslam, Mike Kupfer, John Levon, Dave Miner, Liane Praza, Eric Saxe for sponsoring the code through to putback.
- You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.
Distributions
- Nexenta team released Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 on February 10th. It can be dowloaded at http://www.nexenta.org
Consolidations
- The Docs consolidation released source that included; two new books, new HTML for all books, and updated sources. Download here.
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February 2008 Newsletter Conrtibutors
Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Jim Grisanzio, Shiv
